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Yashas Srinivasa13:57, Jun 23 2021
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Experienced rescue helicopter pilot Nigel Gee, left, and Alpine Cliff Rescue team leader Jim Young on their way to rescue a father-and-son hunter duo at Aoraki/Mt Cook on Tuesday.
A father-and-son hunter duo and a middle-aged Australian man were rescued by the Alpine Cliff Rescue team at Aoraki/Mt Cook in two separate instances on Tuesday. Alpine Cliff Rescue team leader Jim Young said the duo activated their personal locater beacon about 1pm while hunting in the Landsborough Valley area near Aoraki/Mt Cook. The Australian man was on a tramp to the Ball Hut in the Tasman Valley when he veered off course in the dark and got stuck on a cliff face. He turned on his personal locator beacon about 7.45pm.
Thursday, 20 May 2021, 11:23 am
Visitors to Aoraki/Mount Cook next weekend (29-30 May)
will have the chance to participate in the Hermitage
Hotel’s ‘Hike 5 for Hillary’, an initiative coinciding
with Everest Day to raise funds for The Himalayan
Trust.
Saturday 29 May marks the day Sir Edmund
Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay successfully completed the
first ascent of Mt Everest. The Himalayan Trust launched
Everest Day to acknowledge this great achievement, celebrate
the connection between New Zealand and Nepal and raise money
for communities in the Everest region.
‘Hike 5 for
Hillary’ will see participants donate $5 in exchange for a
bespoke passport style booklet with five hikes listed